POLI330 Week 1 | General Political Science in Political Science - Devry university

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity:- Textbook: Chapter 1, 2

• Lesson
• Minimum of 1 scholarly source

Instructions

One role of government is to ensure that policies benefit the people within their jurisdiction.

• For local governments, it would be the townspeople or city dwellers.
• For the state governments, it would be the people living within the state.
• For the federal government, it would be everyone within the borders of the country.

Using an ideology discussed in the textbook, construct an argument explaining how this ideology upholds the public good by examining power, order, and justice. Select an ideology discussed in the textbook. In an essay, examine how power, order, and justice as it relates to the ideology you choose promotes the public good. Writing Requirements (APA format)

• Length: 1.5-2 pages (not including title page or references page)
• 1-inch margins
• Double spaced
• 12-point Times New Roman font
• Title page
• References page (minimum of 1 scholarly source and textbook/lesson)

Grading This activity will be graded based on Week 1 Essay Grading Rubric. Course Outcomes (CO): 1 Due Date: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday

RUBRIC

Week 1 Assignment: Essay – Benefiting the Public Good Week 7 Assignment: Essay - Creating Your Ideal State

Instructions

Your country just overthrew its dictator, and you are the newly elected President. Unfortunately, due to the divisions in the country and the years of war, economic, military, and political structures are non-existent. A group of loyalists to the old dictator have been detonating bombs, murdering civilians, assassinating leaders, and terrorizing towns with help from a neighboring country's dictator. Create a comprehensive plan for your new government. While creating this government identify the governing style, functions of various branches of government, principles that govern leaders, the maintaining of public good, which economic structure is most beneficial to your citizens, at least two domestic programs, ways to create national unity, ways to combat terrorism and violence, and international organizationsto join. (See rubric for specific ways to meet the requirements of the paper.)

Paper headings:

• Introduction

(1 paragraph) o Introduce your country o Briefly outline all of the parts of the paper

• Domestic

Concerns (1-2 pages) o Identify governing style and principles that correlate to this style o Identify the branches of government and its functions o Development of two public good domestic programs and how they will meet the public good o Economic structure and reason why this should be used o Socializing citizens is noted with rationale for how it creates national unity

• Foreign

Concerns (1-2 pages) o Two international organizations are noted, one for economics and one for security o Descriptions of both organizations o Rationales for joining these organizations o Steps to joining o Two ways your country will combat the neighboring country's terrorist threat and the domestic threat o Two ways these will be effective

• Conclusion

(1 paragraph) o Summarize information Writing Requirements (APA format)

- Length:

3-4 pages (not including title page or references page)

• 1-inch

margins

• Double

spaced

• 12-point

Times New Roman font

• Title

page

• References

page (minimum of 2 scholarly sources) Week 8 Discussion: Political Compass Results Initial Post Instructions After taking the political compass test, tell the class what your scores are and what they mean. Then, analyze why you believe the results or do not believe the scores. Finally, discuss how this course has been beneficial to your daily life and career choice. Use evidence (cite sources) to support your response from assigned readings or online lessons, andat least one outside scholarly source. Follow-Up Post Instructions Use evidence (cite sources) to support your response from assigned readings or online lessons, and at least one outside scholarly source. Week 6 Discussion 2: Political Theory and the Budget 11 unread reply.11 reply. Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

- Textbook:

Review Chapters 2, 3 (pgs 56-59), 13

• Lesson
• Additional

scholarly sources you identify through your own research Initial Post Instructions Explain how a libertarian and conservative would approach developing the US budget. Use evidence (cite sources) to support your response from assigned readings or online lessons, andat least one outside scholarly source. Week 7 Discussion: Our Global Neighborhood Initial Post Instructions Pick one international organization (UN, EU, ICC, etc.). Explain its mission and function. Assess how issues of state sovereignty are dealt with for member countries. Use evidence (cite sources) to support your response from assigned readings or online lessons, andat least one outside scholarly source